"Greater Germany - the dream of our fathers and grandfathers - is finally created."

“When you make a mistake, the ocean gives you an instant reminder. You get punished. If golf clubs could shock you every time you hit the ball wrong, we'd probably learn how to play golf pretty well.”

Source : "Laird Hamilton: What I've Learned" by Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. March 23, 2011.

“The older I get, the more I feel like an exile, that I don't belong here. And I don't. I was made for heaven, and my heart is longing for it.”

Source : "Trauma Units" by Stephen Burt, www.nytimes.com. December 15, 2002.

“I don't recommend being a bachelor, but it helps if you want to write.”

“In terms of what is expressed, antinatalism is a strong presence, not always explicit, in what I write.”

“I think it's great when writers get recognition; it doesn't happen very often. I just don't want that writer to be me. Let it be Aaron Sorkin or, you know, somebody good.”

“To every bushel of the powdered cement add one bushel of sand, mix them together and pass them through a sieve, then add a sufficient quantity of water to make it (by well mixing and working) about the consistency of a soft putty. It is then fit to use but should not be kept more than six or eight hours and should be thoroughly worked just before it is used.”

“When there is no love, pour in love and you shall draw out love.”

“White is too brilliant to be seen, so yellow is its filter, its costume, revealing that pure light has not only brightness but emotional resonance and depth.”

Source : Richard Grossinger (2011). “The Bardo of Waking Life”, p.87, North Atlantic Books